When your body won’t cooperate.

Living with persistent pain, chronic fatigue or burnout is hard in ways that are difficult to explain to anyone who hasn’t been there. It’s not just the symptoms. It’s the world shrinking around them. The plans you stop making. The versions of yourself you find yourself grieving. The wearying business of being disbelieved, or told it’s all in your head.

Let me be clear: it isn’t all in your head. But your mind, body and feelings are deeply connected, and that connection is exactly where real change becomes possible.

How this work helps:

When pain or exhaustion becomes chronic, the nervous system often gets stuck on high alert, and that state itself amplifies pain signals and drains what little energy remains. It becomes a loop.

Our work interrupts that loop. Gently, and without ever pushing your system past what it can handle, we help your body step down from constant threat, release tension it may have been holding for years, and rediscover moments of genuine ease. Alongside this, we work on your relationship with the symptoms themselves, loosening the exhausting fight against them and reclaiming that energy for the life you actually want to live.

What I commonly work with

• Fibromyalgia and persistent pain

• Chronic fatigue (ME/CFS)

• Burnout and nervous system exhaustion

• The anxiety and low mood that so often ride alongside long-term conditions

• Physical symptoms that flare with emotional stress

Rebuilding a rich life

I won’t promise to make your symptoms disappear. What I can offer is this: a different relationship with your body, a calmer nervous system, and a way back toward vitality and meaning, even within your current limits.

I offer a free initial consultation to talk about what you’re living with and how we might work together. Sessions are available in person in Leith and Newington, Edinburgh, and online, including from home on the days your body says no.